Éric Barone's cycling on snow world speed record attempt – in pictures

Éric Barone enjoys the thrill of the chase. Having made his name as a stuntman in Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme films, the Frenchman made his first attempt on the world cycling on snow speed record in 1994. Setting the record in 2000, he attempted the feat again on gravel at the Cero Negro volcano in Nicaragua.
It did not end well. Now aged 54, he was back on the snow in Vars in the French Alps to take another crack at it